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News: Corel releases public beta of WordPerfect Lightning
News: Faster LCD panels are next front in TV battle
News: HP moves to simplify data center setup
News: Acer sees strong Q1 PC sales on Vista, CPU war
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Corel releases public beta of WordPerfect Lightning
Corel Corp. released a free public beta of WordPerfect Lightning on Tuesday, a word processor that blends a desktop-based application with online collaboration and storage features.

Faster LCD panels are next front in TV battle
In the world of LCD TVs, the latest buzz is around "100Hz" or "120Hz" technology, which relates to how often the image on the screen is refreshed or redrawn. The technology is already appearing, and if you haven't seen promotional stickers for it yet you probably will soon.

HP moves to simplify data center setup
HP has begun shipping Virtual Connect, a management tool for its BladeSystem c-Class servers that the company thinks will give it an edge over rival IBM Corp. in the market for blade servers.

Acer sees strong Q1 PC sales on Vista, CPU war
The chairman of Acer Inc., the world's fourth largest PC vendor, forecast the company's PC shipments will grow by as much as 50 percent year-on-year in the first quarter and 40 percent for all of 2007, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

HP to buy storage software vendor PolyServe
Hewlett-Packard Co. is acquiring a storage software company that the company says will give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market.

HP launches SMB storage products
Competing with Dell Inc. for small business users who needs to back up their data, Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a low-priced, disk-based backup and recovery system on Monday.

Gov't agency CIOs: IT security remains top concern
IT security remains a top concern of U.S. government chief information officers, but it's also an area where they're making much progress, according to a survey released Monday by the Information Technology Association of America.

Comtel project stalls as countries go their own way
The proposed African multinational broadband project, Comtel, has stalled as individual member countries develop their own regional telecommunication infrastructures.

World Bank weighs in on Africa gateway fees
World Bank officials are speaking out about the international gateway license-fee wrangle between mobile phone service providers and African governments, with a view to spurring economic development in the region.

Sony plans cheaper Blu-ray Disc player
Sony Corp. is planning to launch a Blu-ray Disc player in the middle of this year that's significantly cheaper than many current models on the market. The BDP-S300 will cost about $600 -- about $400 cheaper than Sony's current BDP-S1 -- even though the new player will offer superior capabilities.


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Core dumps for dummies
By Sandra Henry Stocker

If once every several years, you have problems with a process and end up with a troublesome core dump, you might be able to extract some useful information from the file before you delete it from your system. In this week's column, we look at an extremely simple script intended to help you analyze core dumps without requiring you to remember the relevant commands.

Read the full article here.


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